IPv6 Essentials, 3rd Edition

6rd Addresses 30
ISATAP Addresses 31
Teredo Addresses 32
Cryptographically Generated Addresses 33
Link-Local and Unique Local IPv6 Addresses 33
Anycast Address 35
Multicast Address 37
Well-Known Multicast Addresses 39
Solicited-Node Multicast Address 41
Mapping Multicast Addresses to MAC Addresses 42
Dynamic Allocation of Multicast Addresses 42
Required Addresses 44
Default Address Selection 44
References 46
RFCs 46
Drafts 48
3. The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
General Header Structure 49
The Fields in the IPv6 Header 51
Extension Headers 55
Hop-by-Hop Options Header 57
Routing Header 60
Fragment Header 62
Destination Options Header 66
New Extension Header Format 68
Processing of Extension Headers and Header Chain Length 69
References 70
RFCs 70
Drafts 72
4. ICMPv6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
General Message Format 73
ICMP Error Messages 77
Destination Unreachable 78
Packet Too Big 79
Time Exceeded 80
Parameter Problem 81
ICMP Informational Messages 82
Echo Request Message 82
Echo Reply 83
Processing Rules 84

The ICMPv6 Header in a Trace File 85
Neighbor Discovery 87
Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement 89
Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement 92
The ICMP Redirect Message 94
Inverse Neighbor Discovery 95
Neighbor Discovery Options 95
Secure Neighbor Discovery 97
Router Advertisement in the Trace File 98
Link-Layer Address Resolution 99
Neighbor Unreachability Detection 100
Neighbor Cache and Destination Cache 100
Neighbor Discovery and Fragmentation 102
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) 102
Network Renumbering 108
Path MTU Discovery 109
Multicast Listener Discovery 110
MLDv1 112
MLDv2 113
Multicast Router Discovery 117
References 118
RFCs 118
Drafts 121
5. Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Layer 2 Support for IPv6 123
Ethernet (RFC 2464) 124
Point-to-Point Protocol (RFC 5072) 126
IEEE 802.15.4 (RFC 4944) 127
ATM (RFC 2492) 128
Frame Relay (RFC 2590) 128
Upper-Layer Protocols 128
UDP/TCP and Checksums 128
Multicast 130
Multicast Addressing 131
Group Membership Management 131
Multicast Layer 2 Protocols 132
Multicast Routing 132
Protocol Independent Multicast 132
Routing Protocols 133
The Routing Table 134
RIPng 137